Even if you have never read a page of Robert Heinlein’s work, you have probably heard of line families. Monastic orders are line families that have, in some cases, lasted for centuries. Many of the richest families on Earth use line family concepts to maintain stability, increase power and grow wealth. A similar situation occurs when polyamorous people fall in love and choose to live together in multi-adult households. We know of poly families that have been together for over 30 years. During that time three or four working adults can accumulate a strong portfolio, pay off real estate and acquire other assets. Then what? That is what we have been researching and want to share with you. . We answer questions like, how does a large group of intelligent and opinionated adults make decisions for the group? Who owns the real estate? Where would a really large line family live? These and many other questions are discussed in Creating A Line Family. . While the book is slanted towards polyamorous people, there is a lot of practical information for single adults, unmarried couples and parents of children under the age of 18. We discovered state laws that severely limit the sexual activity of consenting single adults. We found that all 50 states have laws that automatically impose a legal status on committed, unmarried couples after 2 or 3 years – even if your state never had common-law marriage. We describe how to protect children if the legal parents are imprisoned, die or are judged mentally incompetent. . We believe a line family will provide its members with financial security, emotional health and love and sharing. None of the individual things we talk about are new or exotic; however, the framework of the line family as a semi-conjugal unit is a new form of an extremely old, pre agricultural social arrangement. People gather together for many reasons. A group of 4 or 5 pilots might pool resources to purchase, maintain and fly an airplane. People form investment clubs to gain the financial leverage of a larger sum of money for investment. Friends gather together to help someone in their community move to a new apartment or house. . Creating A Line Family is a book of tools, not rules.

Creating A Line Family: Love, Abundance & Belonging in the New Millennium

Gilmore, Richard

de Arcana, Elon

Parenting & Relationships

CALF

Designed especially for members of the board of directors, this 40-page booklet is an insightful resource covering many aspects of the board. A consultant with many Emmaus communities, Gilmore explains the responsibilities of the board members, duties of the board committees, possible committee assignments, and much more.

The Board of Directors: Walk to Emmaus Library

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Upper Room Books

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel like and how the erotic can be expressed.The erotic is a pervasive phenomenon in Hitchcock's films. It involves irony, play, and sophistication, and there can be erotic failures as well as erotic successes. The erotic is most complexly explored by Hitchcock in his two masterpieces from the 1950s: Vertigo (1958), a story of the failure of the erotic, and North by Northwest (1959), in which the erotic is consummated in marriage. The author argues that Hitchcock has a philosophical theory about what makes the difference. It is a version of existential philosophy that understands what a person is to be based on what they make of themselves through their choices. The author argues that the erotic for Hitchcock is a process of mutual, reciprocal creation of the personality of the other person. This process is complicated by the fact that as one attempts to create the person one desires, one is simultaneously being created by that other person, and so what one desires is also in a process of being recreated in the mutual reciprocal dance of the erotic entanglement. There is a moral dimension to this because erotic failure is, in a way, a failure of the human, not in the sense of a human essence, but in the sense of realizing human possibilities that can make our lives more satisfying, complete, and full.Hitchcock as Philosopher of the Erotic will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on philosophy of film, film studies, and philosophy of love and sex.

Hitchcock as Philosopher of the Erotic (Routledge Research in Aesthetics)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Routledge

Genre is the classic, modernist method of identifying a movie. A movie is a Western. Or it a Film Noir. Or it is a Romantic Comedy. Or whatever.But what if, as Jacque Derrida has asked, there is something more going on?“What if there were, lodged within the heart of the law of genre itself, a law of impurity or a principle of contamination? And suppose the condition for the possibility of the law were the a priori of a counter-law, an axiom of impossibility that would confound its sense, order, and reason?” These postmodern questions destabilize not only the idea of individual genres, but the very idea of genre itself. Hence: neo-genres. Neo-genres are genres that understand, as it were, their own contingency. Neo-genres revel in their own self-consciousness. In this ground-breaking new book, film scholar Richard Gilmore reflects on these neo-genre films, and the wisdom – if any – that can be found in them.

Postmodern Movies: Neo-Comic Tragedies, Neo-Noirs, Neo-Westerns

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Silver Goat Media

Emerson as Philosopher: Postmodernism and Beyond

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film. This book argues that philosophy and film can and should be used for the amelioration of life’s difficulties and the promotion of life’s boons. Gilmore identifies how philosophy and film complement and enrich one another and explores their relationship by connecting classic wisdom texts to significant movies. For example, the volume analyzes the Coen brothers’ films The Big Lebowski and A Serious Man in light of The Book of Job. Gilmore considers the ancient idea of philosophy as “spiritual exercise” and a way of life. The volume concludes by examining what the author labels “sublime conversations” as the highest expression of philosophy. The book identifies and dissects these conversations in movies directed by the likes of Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard, and Ingmar Bergman, among others.

Searching for Wisdom In Movies: From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations

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